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Public provision of mental hospital services: Some economic issues

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Over the last three decades, the state mental hospital system has undergone major transformations as a result of changes in responsibility, funding, and programming for inpatient services. This article examines the budgetary process and decision making for state expenditures on mental health. Implications of recent and proposed policy changes at the federal level are examined in the context of current state mental health expenditures.

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  1. Richard G. Frank
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  2. Jaclyn Herring
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The authors are affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh where Richard G. Frank is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Economics and Jaclyn Herring is Research Associate, Department of Psychiatry.

The authors are grateful to H. C. Schulberg and members of the Mental Health Policy Workshop at Carnegie-Mellon University for useful discussion of earlier drafts of this article.

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Frank, R.G., Herring, J. Public provision of mental hospital services: Some economic issues. Administration in Mental Health 10, 288–305 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00823106

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